LONDON, February 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Givex, a leading global gift card and loyalty transaction processor, announced today its successful certification to Premier Spa by Premier Software Solutions, the system of choice for many of the most successful high street spas and beauty salons.

Businesses using Premier Spa will now be able to issue Givex gift cards and accept them as alternate payment methods.

LONDON, February 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Innovative .tel Service Means Discoverability Without Technical Ability

Telnic Limited (http://www.telnic.org), the registry operator for the new .tel top level domain (TLD), today announced that small businesses and owner-managers around the world can now get their own domain name which can be used to be found online without the need to build, maintain and host a full website. Dubbed the 'webless web', .tel domains are set to open up internet publishing to everyone, regardless of budget or technical expertise.

LONDON, February 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Dyadem today announced the opening of its EMEA headquarters in London, United Kingdom. The leader in Quality Lifecycle Management and Risk Lifecycle Management solutions, Dyadem has opened an office in London to address the needs of its existing and rapidly growing EMEA customer base, particularly in the oil gas, medical and pharmaceutical industries. Dyadem currently works with more than 85% of the Fortune 500 companies ensuring that risk management and compliance requirements are efficiently met across each client's respective organizations.

LONDON, February 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Is Global Credit Crunch to Blame?

ISTANBUL, Turkey, February 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- From 3 February to 15 April the workshops will take place across Europe, Middle East and Africa with the participation of leading partners and key industry speakers.

GENEVA, Switzerland, February 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Six-Month Primary Efficacy Endpoint of the Study was met: Both Doses of Investigational Agent Safinamide Significantly Increased ON Time in Levodopa-Treated Patients With mid- to Late-Stage Parkinson's Disease

- Secondary Efficacy Endpoints of the Study Analyzed to Date Were met in Both Safinamide Dose Groups

Two newly described fossil whales---a pregnant female and a male of the same species--reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the transition from land to sea.

An international team of researchers has discovered a new chemical compound that consists of a single element―boron. Chemical compounds are conventionally defined as substances consist of two or more elements, but the researchers found that a high pressure and temperature pure boron can assume two distinct forms that bond together to create a novel 'compound' called boron boride.

COROT has found the smallest terrestrial planet ever detected outside the Solar System. The amazing planet is less than twice the size of Earth and orbits a Sun-like star. Its temperature is so high that it is possibly covered in lava or water vapour.
 
About 330 exoplanets have been discovered so far, most of which are gas giants with characteristics similar to Jupiter and Neptune.   The new find, COROT-Exo-7b, is different: its diameter is less than twice that of Earth and it orbits its star once every 20 hours. It is located very close to its parent star, and has a high temperature, between 1000 and 1500°C. Astronomers detected the new planet as it transited its parent star, dimming the light from the star as it passed in front of it. 

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are one gene closer to understanding schizophrenia and related disorders.

Schizophrenia is a varied condition with a number of symptoms not shared by all affected. This could be one reason why it's been difficult to identify genes that contribute to the condition. 

To address this, the team first rigorously separated the 73 different symptoms into nine distinct factors associated with the condition—prodromal, negative, delusion, affective, scholastic, adolescent sociability, disorganization, disability, hallucination.